This isn’t standard TMYLM kind of stuff, but the world is kinda fucked up these days.. And perhaps this request, coming and leaving out of some kind of social-networking site, unnamed now but important to the global sociality that threatens us all with its utter LACK of l33tspeak, fulfils some kind of ancient, pre-1990s urge to just get up there and yell.

This guy said it better, but we have the album.

Newtown Beggars - Beggars CAN Be Choosers (full album)

Welcome to Donkey Disco - the final days of the campaign.  First we go from a stale debate (which your correspondent couldn’t avoid) to a genuinely funny one where, nevermind the winner (McCain), the general consensus is that our first black president will inherit our tremendous financial collapse.  What is there to do but to rejoice that some kind of change is gonna come, and to be happy for the good things we have in life (namely, girls?).

Eleni Mandell starts off todays discussion.. A seemingly chickrock song actually is a pretty provocative digression on obsession and nostalgia, a welcome theme thats infected both sides (unfortunately, there are only two) in the election.  Baby Huey picks it up next with a psychedelic masterpiece version of the classic song.  We can only hope the candidates have as much sense as this tweaked out freakface.

I wonder how you feel when you kiss on election night?

Eleni Mandell - Girls

Baby Huey - A Change Is Gonna Come

We haven’t forgotten about you and your DIY lifestyle! Now with harmonies! acoustic guitars! humming! old timey spellings!

Angus and Julia - Paper Aeroplane

(link fixed!)

There’s a lot of talk these days about what kind of stuff people of certain ethnicities like. White people. Black people. Brown people. Asian people. Young Jewish adults. You know what I like? Kick ass rock shows that rock, kick ass, and make me feel philanthropic for finally giving back to the bands whose music I’ve been pirating the shit out of for years. Here you go, scrappy indie band! Here’s $15. Put a few squirts in the van.

Here’s a few tracks from bands I just saw or am about to see. Feel free to pirate the shit out of it.

Boredoms - B is for Boredoms

Blood on the Wall - Mary Susan

High Places - New Grace

Spring beckons and TMYLM follows eagerly, abandoning multiday posting for whoa-whoa-whoa multistage-hidden identity assistant-magician tricks, school, family and friends experiences. Yes, the buds are out on the tree and you know what that calls for: some of the tweest shit you’ve heard in a while. So decalcify your espresso machine and listen to our songs (if you can avoid the various sex scandals)

Plants and Animals - Bye Bye Bye
White Rabbits - While We Go Dancing
Marianne Faithfull - Working Class Hero

I was gonna say something like “these bands are like a musical tsunami” but then I remembered that’d be like wiping my ass with 9/11 toilet paper in front of a firefighter with no legs.

First up, Indonesian Love Boat pop, followed by the White Snake of Jakarta. Enjoyz.

White Shoes and the Couples Company - Aksi Kucing

The Super Insurgent Group of Intemperance Talent - The Party

Listen, we at TMYLM are quite lazy, but it doesn’t mean that we can’t appreciate when others are not lazy.  So (So) it comes as no surprise that we had to link to a double-plus-ungood unlazy link.  Its a page of covers of Leonard Cohen’s incredible Hallelujah.

My Old Kentucky Blog - Hallelujah Covers (Updated)

Those of us with a proclivity for walking around in our birthday suits should soak in this 57-second wonder of hippie folk-psych. Yeah, Cat Power covered it and all, but that’s just a little too twee, even for this tweentry mix.

The first fifteen seconds of Omaha have these incredible, way before their time distortion effects. Otherwise, a catchy little dittie. Enjoyz!

Moby Grape - Naked, If I Want To

Moby Grape - Omaha

PS: A very special 7th birthday to our favorite leap year Soca impresario, Randy Cohen, Ethicist.

If bands these days aren’t named after wolves and deer and lambs, they’re named after water and rocks and whales and bodies. The latter usually involving female harmonies, epic choruses, country fiddles, and a stomping back-beat.

Noah & The Whale - Rocks and Daggers (fixed link!!)

Here’s to coming together! To parties with proletarian stomping and lamb balls and boring biddies in blue dresses! Here’s to parties and their aftermaths that are slightly less traumatizing than Katrina but up there with a category 3 hurricane. Here’s to hordes of friends, flushed face in a coke haze making your downstairs neighbors’ lives a living hell. To dozens of hirsute young hipsters pouring Tall Boys down each others’ throats and choking the hallway like 205 Bar on Hollertronix night. Hate ‘em or leave ‘em, cuz democracy ain’t dead and neither is John McCain. The Mac is back!!

Low - Hatchet (Optimimi version)